ἔχουσι (echousi)

ἔχουσι is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 989 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70.7: … λλοντα τυχεῖν πράξαντες. ἢν δ’ ἄρα του καὶ πείρᾳ σφαλῶσιν, ἀντελπίσαντες ἄλλα ἐπλήρωσαν τὴν χρείαν· μόνοι γὰρ ἔχουσί τε ὁμοίως καὶ ἐλπίζουσιν ἃ ἂν ἐπινοήσωσι διὰ τὸ ταχεῖαν τὴν ἐπιχείρησιν ποιεῖσθαι ὧν ἂν γνῶσιν.

New Testament, Luke 16.29: λέγει δὲ Ἀβραάμ Ἔχουσι Μωυσέα καὶ τοὺς προφήτας· ἀκουσάτωσαν αὐτῶν.

Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 8.2·4: … μφέρει αὐτοῖς. ἔχουσι γὰρ ἀρχὴν τοιαύτην ἣ κρείττων τοῦ νοῦ καὶ τῆς βουλεύσεως ʽοἳ δὲ τὸν λόγον· τοῦτο δʼ οὐκ ἔχουσἰ καὶ ἐνθουσιασμόν, τοῦτο δʼ οὐ δύνανται. ἄλογοι γὰρ ὄντες ἐπιτυγχάνουσι· καὶ τούτων φρονίμων καὶ σοφῶν ταχεῖαν …

All forms of ἔχω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.